#infinity train spoilers

[johannesviii]

So we've been watching Infinity Train with my friends and we just finished season 3 and

#textpost meme #tumblr text posts #infinity train #infinity train spoilers #the speed at which I made that too #like we finished s3 #and 10 minutes later I was making this #grace monroe #simon laurent

[flickering-nightfall]

#here's the other crossover i was talking about #“what do you mean these aren't denizens?” #“what the hell did that cat thing DO???” #...how do you think five pebbles got on the train? #do you think it magically destrung him? #do you think it just barreled through the walls of his superstructure to get to his puppet... #rain world #rw spoilers #dp spoilers #rw artificer #five pebbles #infinity train #infinity train spoilers #sort of #only tagging simon and grace in my heart because they're in the background #i hope one day infinity train magically gets picked up again and finished #it's an amazing show

[book-three-my-beloved]

Another screenshot redraw because I rewatched book 2

#infinity train #lake infinity train #jesse cosay #infinity train spoilers #mine #now I can rewatch book three yippee!! #I told myself I had to finish this one before I watched it to get me inspo

[zitrovee]

hehehe tiktok funny

#infinity train #infinity train book 3 #infinity train spoilers #vee archives

[kindaorangey]

thinking about tuba infinity train on this fine day good god she was a mother of at least two (maybe more) children, not just her daughter bugle, and she lost all of them and then hazel came into her life as a sort of surrpgate daughter whom she loved not in place of her other children but sort of used to help process her grief (it's implied that she and hazel held a funeral for tuba's other children together) and find an outlet for her maternal and protective instincts, and they find a nice life together independently of passengers, until these two teenaged assholes come in and try to break that tentative peace, take hazel away from tuba, and what's more they're actively dehumanising tuba to her own face and to hazel's the whole time, openly trying to drive a wedge between them and undermine their relationship (a relationship which basically saved both of their lives), and tuba begins to establish trust with one of the teenagers and eventually the other one too (or so she thinks), and then her last moments are taking a leap of faith with that trust, leaving hazel (hazel, her baby, the girl that saved her life, her everything) to one of the teenagers while the other fucking kills her. her last moments were losing everything she holds dear and being told that her everything is not in safe hands. simon laurent when i catch you i'm killing you again

#infinity train #tuba infinity train #infinity train spoilers #cult of the conductor #thunder rambles

[epicsauce]

finished that simon and grace poster + made some icons of it! :))

(infinity train s3 spoilers below)

i thought that we could build a life together

but i was wrong

but you were wrong

#infinity train fanart #infinity train spoilers #grace monroe #simon laurent #infinity train #fanart #art #digital art #illustration #0600

[soyalexnajera]

I'm going to keep loving you like you're still here.. ❤️

#infinity train #infinity train book 3 #grace monroe #hbo max #infinity train spoilers #tuba infinity train #hazel infinity train #:') #me @ the show

[sparkdoesart]

The Infinity Train Slugcats! I did all of the passengers (except Amelia for some reason) and do plan on doing the denizens as well. (Yes, I count Hazel and Lake as passengers) Also, I added the pronouns for Lake because that's the character that has the most confusion around them, and that's what I use for them.

I do plan on doing this for amphibia and toh next and possibly posting some scugerator designs, too.

#infinity train #infinity train spoilers #rain world #ryan akagi #min gi park #lake infinity train #jesse cosay #tulip olsen #simon laurent #grace monroe #hazel infinity train #slugcat

[ultimate-tragic-couples-showdown]

Round 1d - Poll 5

Timothy Rand & Rolan Deep (JRWI: Blood In the Bayou) vs Amelia Hughes and Alrick Timmens (Infinity Train)

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[asticassia]

if i had a nickel for every time there was a character named simon in an hbo max continuation of a cartoon network animated series who was shown decaying and crumbling into dust onscreen i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but etc etc

#fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #at spoilers #infinity train spoilers #wrentxt #so many spoiler tags....i feel like im barricading the door of this post HGKLSDHKLFHSD

[iscream-dot-com]

i made a watercolor version of the grace sketch too, but i fucked it up.

#book 3 spoilers #infinity train spoilers #infinity train #grace monroe #amelia hughes #my art #art #pen draws

[porifebba]

April 2022

Simon's journey on the train

Quite the dramatic piece, but it is to this day the art piece that got me the most likes on the twitter (in the hundreds ^ ^)

#infinity train spoilers #infinitytrain #simon laurent #porifebba #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #character art #my art

[flickering-nightfall]

So, your Infinity Train crossover got me to watch the show, and... woah. Woah. I would love to know if you had any more ideas, blurbs, thoughts, anything about that crossover, because now I can't get enough of imagining the viciously murderous cat and accidentally-fratricidal robot on the train.

I'm glad you liked Infinity Train too! (and thank you!) More on the crossover... I gotta admit I haven't thought of much other than the initial "haha what if" idea. Maybe I can speculate though:

Spoilers ahead!

There were many hilarious and thoughtful takes on how Pebbles could possibly end up on the train, in the notes of the initial post. I joked that it'd just tear a hole through his structure, but there are more (and less) sane options than that.

Since we only see human passengers on the train, a lot of people would probably mistake Pebbles and Arti as denizens. Simon and Grace would probably not take to them having numbers well. I feel like they'd most likely think it was a trick, but it could shake up their perspective too.

Man humans look kind of similar to ancients maybe. That doesn't mean much to Arti - and I think humans look dissimilar enough from scavs to be spared by her wrath. But to Pebbles...

Also, iterators haven't communicated with another civilization-era sapient species in a quite a while probably. Some interesting stuff can come out of that.

How many migraines do you think Pebbles gets from trying to figure out what the hell is up with denizens? Or the train itself? I feel like he'd have an aneurysm if he had to interact with Alan Dracula. If he goes home and tries to tell the others what happened without any proof, they'd think he'd had a rot-induced fever dream.

Numbers are dependent on how close a passenger is to solving their problem. Arti, having already killed the scav chieftain, according to Rain World has hit the point of no return. So her body is completely wrapped up in numbers. But like Amelia, with enough time and determination it might be possible. The main problem is... Arti has to want to fix her problem first. The setup for her to do that is there. She's with Pebbles, so she has less of a reason to go off on a rampage unless she's being threatened. The lack of scavs wouldn't stop her from resorting to violence at this point, but the pure strangeness and unfamiliarity of her surroundings should at least baffle her into a different mental state.

I think in order to get an exit, Arti needs to make peace with herself. She must acknowledge what she has become, and to truly believe that she needs to change. It has little to do with the death of her children at that point. She needs to escape the self-perpetuating circle of violence.

Pebbles' number is much smaller (but still huge) because he's entrenched in rage and isolation and frustration on a massive timescale, but we see him eventually come to a resolution in Rivulet's campaign. How would the train define his problem though? It could be his anger at Moon and Suns, blaming them for his current state (even if Suns is partially at fault). It could be his tendency to close himself off, his refusal to talk to others or accept help. It could be his denial, believing he can handle and fix everything by himself. It could be his overall arrogance or ego. There's a lot of options there. Ultimately I think whatever brings him to think similarly to how he does in Rivulet's campaign would do the trick.

The sad thing is that Pebbles would probably be better off staying on the train too. I'm not sure if he'd be affected by the rot there, but he'd at least he could (literally) get out of his own head. And he has no choice but to touch grass interact with new people and situations. But to deny his exit would be to deny responsibility for what he's done. If he's really gotten better, that means he knows he can't run away anymore.

If Pebbles went to the train without Arti there's a chance he'd get killed or ghom'd two days into the trip. We are assuming his puppet is capable of walking for this AU, but also I do not think he knows how to walk. Good luck pink guy!

On the flipside. Pebbles could... probably take over the train even more than Amelia ever did, especially as a (bio)mechanical being himself. The only thing that could limit him are taboos maybe. Any iterator could do this, really. Lots of potential paths with that one.

Something something, One-One and iterators both solving people's big problems with varying amounts of success, and both engineering weird organisms...

...does a RW character that gets ghom'd return to the great cycle? Their soul gets devoured, or their life essence, it's not clear. I guess which one could determine what happens. But also they are in another universe where there is probably no cycle. Are ghoms a triple affirmative? Is crossdimensional travel? The latter wouldn't fit the "portable and generally applicable" part but still. This is a whole rabbit hole and a half, isn't it!

The train is dangerous and all, but that just makes Rain World characters a hilarious fit for it. Like this is just their daily life. Honestly I think their home world is more dangerous than the train, just in less wacky ways.

Lastly: I haven't even touched upon what introducing other characters could do for this narrative, or how they would react. So many possibilities!

If anyone wants to do more with this, please feel free!

#rw spoilers #dp spoilers #infinity train spoilers #text #ask #thetroupemaster #anon #rambles #long post

[i-am-the-entertainer]

The show knows the train is bad, actually.

So over the years that I’ve been watching Infinity Train, there’s a recurring argument that the train is actually bad. That the process of being picked up by the train is non-consensual, the train essentially violates its passengers’ personal life in the name of making them improve or else, and that the environment of the train could actually make a person worse (just look at Simon).

The thing about this discourse, though, is that it’s arguing something that the show explicitly agrees with.

The Book 2 DVD commentary includes a discussion of this: in the commentary for both “The Past Car” and “The Number Car”, Alex Horab, Madeline Queripel, and Owen Dennis flat out say that “the train’s not really the good guy here” when showing how the train picks up passengers and leaves them unconscious while harvesting memories from them – they even comment on how, despite having been a protagonist in Book One, One-One is an antagonist to Lake’s story, because he represents the system that she is trying to fight against. Owen Dennis even explicitly highlights in his interview for “The Ethics of Fiction: Infinity Train” that this is a viewpoint that was caked into the show from the start, and in numerous interviews and statements he talks about how the unreleased Book Five would have directly highlighted this.

So, some of the armchair moral philosophers out there may be inclined to ask, “If the show knows the train is bad, why doesn’t it just say that outright?”

Simple. The show isn’t about the train.

It’s about the people onboard the train. The train is just a setting for their stories.

That’s what got the show sold in the first place: it’s an intriguing setting for a show, and part of the fun of watching it is slowly understanding more about the setting.

But, once you know more over 2-4 seasons of television, that’s when you realize, “Hey, wait a second. This place isn’t good for the passengers.” And so the seasons go on-and-on, and eventually that’s gonna be addressed (we know Book Five at the very least would have been about this).

I think a good comparison point is the previously-stated metaphor of the show being “Saw for kids” (something Owen Dennis once used in an interview): every Saw movie is about someone who has committed some sort of wrong being put into an unfamiliar, machine-based environment to learn morality. And yet Saw doesn’t shy away from the fact that there’s nothing moral about what these people are being put through, by an uncaring “authority” who claims some sort of judgment over whether a person is good or not (though from a cultural standpoint, I think Saw does a worse job of highlighting that last part than Infinity Train).

There’s this assumption that I think we’re all taught at a young age that there’s always a white and black morality to everything: media, the world, our personal lives. As we grow older we learn that things are often morally grey, that a situation is more complex than saying “this is good” vs. “this is bad.”

But I honestly think that Infinity Train isn’t arguing that the train is good, bad, or grey. It’s focused on the stories of the people onboard the train, and how their experiences on the train affect them. Again, the train is the setting, not necessarily the point. But one of the numerous storytelling opportunities this show could have had if it had been renewed was getting the chance to explore that issue of the train being a negative force.

For now, I guess, we’ll only have the subtext (which I guess is too imperceptible for some people?).

#infinity train #infinity train meta #infinity train spoilers

[zitrovee]

Reposting my very old Infinity Train edits cause aside from 70% of the self indulgent Simon content this was my only legacy online ever

#infinity train book 4 #infinity train book 3 #infinity train #infinity train spoilers #infinity train edit #Rymin #zitro vee edits

[they-call-me-haiku]

so something that bothered me about the Infinity Train fandom is how they always seem to be on either of two extreme ends when it comes to judging Simon's character. it's either "Simon is an evil scum who deserved to die" or "Simon is an innocent misunderstood victim". like.. have you guys never heard of complex villains?

the worst take I've seen is people blaming the show writers for killing off Simon because "they're implying that he deserved to die". i just don't know how people jumped to this conclusion, it's a leap for sure. you don't kill off characters in a story because they deserve to die, you do it because that's the way the story goes.

and i agree that certain writers can have controversial ideals that reflect in their writing, but i really don't think that's the case here. Simon's death was never framed as satisfactory or victorious, it was framed as tragic. you don't see Grace and the Apex celebrating his death, you see them mourning it. he tried to kill Grace but she is still heartbroken and traumatized by his death. it's so clear that the narrative wants us to sympathize with him, but also acknowledge the fact that he did some pretty heinous stuff that can't be forgiven.

could Simon have been redeemed? yes. i think any character could be redeemed, regardless of how evil they were because as i've mentioned before, redemption ≠ forgiveness. but did he need to be redeemed? no. the point of this season was to show two characters who start off in the same place and end up in wildly different ones. two characters who are given choices and choose the one that decides their fate.

the truth here is that while Simon is a traumatized character that we can empathize with, he still chose the path that led to his demise. and believe it or not, people sometimes do that. for example, if a person with an alcohol addiction drank and drove, and ended up killing themself in an accident, that is the direct consequence of their actions. does that mean they deserved it? probably not. they may have had an understandable explanation to why they drank. they may have been depressed or peer pressured or trying to escape harsh realities, and none of it is their fault. but people die and sometimes it's a grizzly death. sometimes the nicest people suffer a lot, and it's not a testament to their character.

some fans may have painted Simon as a pure evil but the show certainly didn't, and it's stupid to attack the creators for killing off a character for narrative purpose. like.. is this the first time you've seen a fictional character die? i understand being upset about it, i was upset about it too. but it was the right decision in a narrative sense. Infinity Train has never shied away from touching on brutally realistic topics and this is just part of it.

my point is. sometimes people just die a brutal death. death doesn't have a specific meaning and it's not a testament to people's morality. it's just death.

#i've seen people behave the same way about azula from avatar #like yes we love a good redemption arc #but not everyone can be zuko #anyone can be redeemed but not all characters need to be redeemed #sometimes its interesting to explore what would happen if a character didnt try to redeem themselves #anyway this has been my rant #infinity train #infinity train book 3 #simon infinity train #simon laurent #simon and grace #grace infinity train #grace monroe #infinity train meta #infinity train spoilers #i guess infinity train fabs wanted a catra-style redemption arc where grace is like #“its okay simon i forgive you even though you murdered someone” #fans*